Technical Manager
Sudanese Liquid Air Co. Ltd
Total years of experience :22 years, 11 Months
Responsibilities:
• Working with Top management team in developing company’s strategy, business, and operations plan.
• Leading the Gas production function to ensure the fulfillment the objectives of the production plan.
• Working with maintenance function to develop plans and practices and racking execution of adequate maintenances to ensure availability and overall ASU plants’ efficiency.
• Liaising with procurement section to ensure timely and quality supply of materials, services and spare parts.
• Tracking, following up and auditing daily performance of all production facilities and people to insure alignment with company’s long, medium and short term goals.
• Planning employee’s development and training to meet the performance targets.
• Liaising internally and external to respond to technical support required by our customers.
• Planning and executing development and improvement projects to address new opportunities and to ensure sustained performances.
• Preparing and presenting annual and quarterly financial and performance reports.
a. Dec.2019 - to Jan.2020: Member of Turnaround Delay Investigation Ministerial Committee - Fully Dedicated.
b. Jan.2020 - to Feb.2020: Member of Turnaround Taskforce Ministerial Committee- Fully Dedicated.
c. July.2020 - Sep.2020: Head of Refineries Assessment Sub-committee of the Higher Committee for Economic Emergency - Council of Ministers.
d. Feb.2020 - 31.Dec.2020: Head of Turnaround Taskforce Ministerial Committee- Fully Dedicated.
e. Jan.2021 - 31.Oct.2021: Management Consultant - Deputy ERP Project Manager
Challenges and Achievements:
Challenges: Outbreak of COVID-19, Scarce of Foreign Currency Funds, and the reluctance of Chines vendors and service contractors towards working in Sudan- post regime change.
Achievements:
i. I could steer the preparations for Turnaround, which enabled carrying out the TA in Dec.2020 that minimized the delay to for months, despite the difficulties inflected by the COVID-19.
ii. Helped resolve and overcome many problems in the Materials and Services Procurement Process, such as short in staff and business process workflows to streamline and expedite the process.
iii. Carried out a quick stocktaking of spare parts inventories which helped in finding out number of locally available parts required for the upcoming Turnaround, which this have reduced lead-time and budget significantly.
iv. Prepared supplementary guides, templates and explanatory notes to existing Turnaround SOPs.
v. Led a thorough and critical review of work lists to purge out non-critical work scope, which have significantly reduced lead-times and budget.
vi. We prepared and presented comprehensive report on the current problems in KRC and worked with the ministry in implementing some of our recommended solutions.
vii. As, management consultant, I led extensive effort in getting the buy-in of top management to introducing ERP system.
viii. As Deputy ERP Project Manager I prepared the overall project lifecycle roadmap and started the venders sourcing process.
ix. As a member of the restructuring committee, I led an extensive effort to get the buy-in of shareholders, top management and the management consulting firm, to introduce Two new Functions (One Department), of Business Planning and Performance Management Department. My effort resulted in approving the introduction of these new Department in the proposed new structure.
During this period the company won and successfully completed the following contracts:
a. Execution of Power system installation and commissioning of Laundry Soap Production Line - KAMBAL Detergents Factory: Jul - Dec.2019.
b. Execution of Power system installation and commissioning of Sheet Insulation Production Line - SUDAFoam Factory: Jan - Jul.2018.
c. Execution of Power, Instrumentation and Control (EI&C) system installation and commissioning of 200TPD vegetable oils refinery - DELTA Food Industries: May - Dec.2017.
d. Execution of (EI&C) installation and commissioning of 400TPD vegetable oils refinery - SAVOLA Food Industries: May - Sep.2016.
e. Execution of (EI&C) installation (only) of 200TPD vegetable oils refinery and 200TPD Solvent Extraction Unit- Montana Food Industries: May - Sep.2016.
f. Execution of (EI&C) installation and commissioning of 100TPD Fat Splitting Plant, 120TPD Toilet Soap Line and Utilities- ELTIETAL Detergents and Soap Complex: Jun.2014 - Feb.2015.
g. Execution of (EI&C) installation, configuration and commissioning of Floating Dredger - DAMAZIN Dam - Sudanese Hydro-generation Co.: Jan.2013 - Jun.2013.
Oversee the production, engineering and maintenance functions in its 32 Million Woven sacks/year factory.
Achievements:
a. The factory since inception was making net business loss. In response I led a comprehensive assessment and review. We found out the reason of loss was due to the drastic change in preset product mix, dictated by the nature of market preferences.
b. Developed cost accounting system and integrated it with financial accounting, planning and reporting system. This cost account system has helped resolving the business loss problem through the change of product mix and pricing scheme, and in setting new financial and business plan.
c. Developed a mini_ERP system with MS Visual Basic, which have integrated production function with purchase, warehouses and sales functions.
Aug.2009 - Jul.2011: Head of section, Electrical & Instrumentation.
Jan.2010 - Jul.2011: Appointed as a Project Site Manager for the construction of a 2000Nm3/hr the company’s new Air Separation Plant.
Jul.2011 - Sep.2012: Maintenance Head of Section. I also served as Back up Technical Manager.
a. Recruitment and placing of the operation and project site staff for the new ASU plant.
b. Liaising with Power Supply Company to resolve major supply problems that hindered the commissioning process that caused a delay of two months, because the solution required the change of the Protection Coordination Schemes of Upstream Substations.
c. Succeeded in Completing the Plant Commissioning and putting the plant into production, with in house team, after the plant supplier abstained from completing the commissioning.
a. Led an automation project for engineering and integration of DCS control system for a Hydrocarbon Solvents Production plant, included; the complete engineering; integration; supply of hardware and software; installation, configuration, commissioning and training for the plant-wide DCS control system - Khartoum Chemicals Factory (2008).
b. Led the preparation of FEED study for establishing a retrofit SCADA system for monitoring/controlling 325 Oil Well Sites in HEGLEIG oil fields. This job included; requirements soliciting and functional analysis; system conception and architecting; preliminary system engineering; quantities and cost estimation; and FEED report presentation and discussion (GNPOC/Vision Valley Co. - 2008).
c. Assigned as EI&C and electromechanical reviewer in the design review team of Consultancy Center - Arab Authority for Agricultural and Industrial development - for reviewing the design of $28M Pharmaceutical Plant. My role included the review of the electromechanical design over the three design stages. Then participated in master project planning, setting procurement strategy, drafting contracts and bidding documents (Aug.2008 to Apr.2009).
d. As Site Engineer I supervised the installation, Commissioning and handover of semi-automated Racking System for Central Warehouses of the National Medical Supplies Corp. (Ministry of Health - Gov. of Sudan - 2007).
a. Jan.2003 to Jun.2003: Electrical and Control, Head of Section - reporting to Production Manager.
b. Jun.2003 to March.2004: Head of Maintenance (Electrical & Mechanical) Section - reporting to Production Manager.
c. March.2004 to Apr.2006: Rehabilitation Project Manager’s Assistant for Electromechanical Part.
d. Apr.2006 - Aug.2006: Head of Maintenance Section - reporting to Production Manager.
Job Role: Running Khartoum Office - Marketing, sales and technical support.
Responsibilities:
a. Running Khartoum Office.
b. Responding to the clients’ requests for quotations or technical support.
c. Publicizing Endress+Hauser Products in Sudan.
d. Conducting visits and approaching potential clients.
e. Preparing business plan jointly with the area sales manager.
f. Liaising with local clients and E+H staffs in different production centers in engineering and supplying of systems and instrumentations.